Changing Aging Blogs
[Is your blog changing aging? Let us know at changingaging AT gmail DOT com]
- Ageless Marketing
- A Little Red Hen
- Better Than I Ever Expected
- Boomers
- Cab Drollery
- Duplex Planet
- EChronicles
- Ecumen's Changing Aging Blog
- EdlerAbuse.org
- Elder Law Issues
- Elder Storytelling Place
- Embodied Aging
- Global Ageing Network Blog
- Maya's Granny
- O'Folks
- Real Sage Advice
- Remembering Matters
- The Boomer Chronicles
- The Savvy Boomer
- The Story of Stuff
- Time Goes By
- Women's Voices for Change
Politics
- Daily Kos
- Grasping Reality
- The Huffington Post
- Talking Points Memo
- Think Progress
- The Washington Monthly
Media & Culture
- CJR Daily
- FAIR's Media Views
- FuturePundit
- Infomaniac: Behind the News
- Social Media
- Romenesko
- Truemors
Health & Science
News
Changing Aging Books
Search
Recent Posts
- ChangingAging.org Redesign -- Please Bookmark!
- Disaster in Buffalo
- Power Up Friday
- Blanchard WinsDays
- Kevin Frick writes...
- Monkhouse Monday
- Getting Closer!
- Blanchard WinsDays
- Power Up Friday
- My Pick for Health and Human Services
- Understanding Health Care Reform
- Facts Are Stubborn Things: Social Security Edition
- Monkhouse Monday
- Localism is Coming
- Krugman Can't Wait...
Recent Comments
- David Greenberger on
The Duplex Planet
Category Archives
- AGING 100
- Aging
- Culture
- Dementia
- Eden Alternative
- Erickson School
- Green House
- Health Policy
- Longevity
- Media
- Rockets
Monthly Archives
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
Subscribe to this blog's feed
Blog Data
« Shou Xing: Let's Make a Deal Edition | Main | King Pong »
November 12, 2007 |Permalink |Comments (1)
The Duplex Planet
Judith Shapiro cuts loose in the comments bringing us a wonderful bit of art/poetry called the Duplex Planet.
In 1979 David Greenberger became the new young, fresh-out of art school activities director of the home. David encouraged Ernest to write poetry and over the last seven years of his life he wrote more than four hundred poems. David published a collection of Ernest’s poems, “We Did Not Plummet into Space”. David also published “The Duplex Planet”, 6-page typed and photocopied fold-over volumes that came out almost monthly, direct transcripts of conversations by the residents of the nursing home in response to typically quirky questions posed by David. I subscribed to “The Duplex Planet” twenty years ago and I hadn’t looked at my copies in many years, but thanks to this blog I found them in the bookcase, dusted them off and had a lovely afternoon revisiting them. I also found The Duplex Planet alive and well in the electronic age.
Welcome to the Planet.
Comments ( 1)
Thanks for getting back in touch - yes i'm still at it and the self-published periodical is still going - issue #180 just out (it went from 12 to 16 pages and has a 2-color cover now and continues to be printed, not photocopied). For the past decade I've been creating monologues with music - there've been a series of CDs and performances. I'm artist in residence in Milwaukee for the Univ of WI at Milwaukee's Center on Aging and will be creating a new work based on time I'll be spending with elderly dementia patients - will result in pieces for radio and a CD - and again will collaborating with a composer and musicians in that area (as i've done in previous works done in Portland, OR, Chattanooga, TN, Erie, PA and Cape Cod, MA)
Best wishes and happy new year,
DAvid